Georg Solti

Solti by [[Allan Warren Sir Georg Solti ( , ; born György Stern; 21 October 1912 – 5 September 1997) was a Hungarian-British orchestral and operatic conductor, known for his appearances with opera companies in Munich, Frankfurt, and London, and as a long-serving music director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Born in Budapest, he studied there with Béla Bartók, Leó Weiner, and Ernő Dohnányi. In the 1930s, he was a ''répétiteur'' at the Hungarian State Opera and worked at the Salzburg Festival for Arturo Toscanini. His career was interrupted by the rise of the Nazis' influence on Hungarian politics, and being of Jewish background, he fled the increasingly harsh Hungarian anti-Jewish laws in 1938. After conducting a season of Russian ballet in London at the Royal Opera House, he found refuge in Switzerland, where he remained during the Second World War. Prohibited from conducting there, he earned a living as a pianist.

After the war, Solti was appointed musical director of the Bavarian State Opera in Munich in 1946. In 1952, he moved to the Oper Frankfurt, where he remained in charge for nine years. He took West German citizenship in 1953. In 1961, he became musical director of the Covent Garden Opera Company, London. During his 10-year tenure, he introduced changes that raised standards to the highest international levels. Under his musical directorship, the status of the company was recognised with the grant of the title "the Royal Opera". He became an honorary citizen of the coastal holiday town of Castiglione della Pescaia, and a British citizen in 1972.

In 1969, Solti became music director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, a post he held for 22 years. He conducted many recordings and high-profile international tours with the orchestra. Solti relinquished the position in 1991 and became the orchestra's music director laureate, a position he held until his death. During his time as the Chicago Symphony Orchestra's eighth music director, he also served as music director of the Orchestre de Paris from 1972 until 1975 and principal conductor of the London Philharmonic Orchestra from 1979 until 1983.

Known in his early years for the intensity of his music making, Solti was widely considered to have mellowed as a conductor in later years. He recorded many works two or three times at various stages of his career, and was a prolific recording artist, making more than 250 recordings, including 45 complete opera sets. The best-known of his recordings is probably Decca's complete set of Richard Wagner's ''Der Ring des Nibelungen'', made between 1958 and 1965. Solti's ''Ring'' has twice been voted the greatest recording ever made, in polls for ''Gramophone'' magazine in 1999 and the BBC's ''Music Magazine'' in 2012. Solti was repeatedly honoured by the recording industry with awards throughout his career. From 1963 to 1998, he won 31 Grammy Awards as a recording artist, making him the Grammy Awards' most-awarded artist until Beyoncé surpassed his record in 2023. Provided by Wikipedia
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by Haydn, Joseph, 1732-1809
London : Decca, 2004
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by Bruckner, Anton, 1824-1896
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by Beethoven, Ludwig van, 1770-1827
London CS 6778. 1959
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by Wagner, Richard, 1813-1883
New York, N.Y. : London, 1983
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by Mahler, Gustav, 1860-1911
London : London, 1983
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by Wagner, Richard, 1813-1883
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by Bruckner, Anton, 1824-1896
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by Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilich, 1840-1893
[New York] : London, 1987
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by Strauss, Richard, 1864-1949
[New York, N.Y.] : London, 1986
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by Mahler, Gustav, 1860-1911
London : London, 1984
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by Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilich, 1840-1893
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by Bruckner, Anton, 1824-1896
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by Brahms, Johannes, 1833-1897
[Ocean City, N.J.] : Musical Heritage Society, 1989
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by Brahms, Johannes, 1833-1897
[Ocean, N.J.] : Musical Heritage Society, 1986
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by Bruckner, Anton, 1824-1896
Oakhurst, NJ : Musical Heritage Society, 1997
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by Schubert, Franz, 1797-1828
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